The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all the elements of her body were being physically wrung out. Aomame had no idea what was going on. Could Sinfonietta actually be giving me this weird feeling?

“You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudde…”

“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it b…”

“I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery…”

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, ev…”